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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda invite Gino to do with her when she runs into him in Chapter 12?
(a) Have dinner.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Move to Florence with her.
(d) Come to her apartment.

2. What does Leda think was the only thing the young Neapolitan mother desired as she watched her and her daughter play in the water in Chapter 4?
(a) Her child.
(b) Escape.
(c) Other men.
(d) The sun.

3. What does Leda dislike about the way Nina and Elena play with the doll?
(a) They are getting the doll wet and dirty.
(b) The way they fight over the doll.
(c) The fact that the doll in makes.
(d) The voices they use.

4. What does Leda tell Rosaria is "always a cause for worry" (20)?
(a) Children.
(b) Work.
(c) Money.
(d) Spouses.

5. What is the name of the person who greeted Leda when she arrived at her vacation apartment?
(a) Giovanni.
(b) Gianni.
(c) Alessandro.
(d) Riccardo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the daughter of the young Neapolitan woman carry around with her at the beach?

2. What would Lucilla do if Bianca and Marta were too immersed in a game to play with Lucilla?

3. Whose "gentle cadence" (13) did Nina's voice remind Leda?

4. How old is Giovanni?

5. What ominous warning sign does Elena imagine as she drives at the start of the novel?

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